Greening the Island of the Gods- Education Outreach

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About PSPs Education Outreach

Innovative Global Education Resources

The Paradigm Shift Project (PSP) is a Canadian charity that promotes peace, environmental

sustainability, and human rights on a global level by advancing education on important issues

relating to poverty, ecology, health, and community development. Through the production of

short documentary films featuring local communities and grassroots organizations in the global

south, PSP works to demystify the pressing environmental and social issues of our time, teach-

ing people not only how they relate to an increasingly interconnected and interdependent

world, but also how they can engage to the fullest as compassionate global citizens and advo-

cate for environmental sustainability and social justice.

Currently, to further this mission, PSP is seeking funding to continue our youth education out-

reach programming, in the creation and dissemination of a Paradigm Shift Educators Toolkit for

use in classrooms all over the world. These new, free materials for educators include copies of

PSP films as well as detailed, age specific curricula guides that address a growing need for

engaging and inspiring multimedia resources that directly confront the pressing issues facing

our youth with hope and solidarity. These resources will be of great value to youth struggling to

understand, connect with, and respond to global issues in constructive, sustainable ways.

Making shift happen through

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The Need For These Resources

This project will provide educational resources that are not only needed, but also necessary for

students and educators. In both developed and developing countries, youth are increasingly

affected by and involved in global social and environmental justice issues. It is the responsibility

of educators, then, to ensure that youth are equipped with the knowledge and critical thinking

skills required to cope with, address, and tackle these social and environmental issues. Such

issues, however, develop and change rapidly. According to a number of education profession-

als who maintain working relationships with PSP, education systems currently lack up-to-date,

innovative resources that utilize the media arts to relate to students in meaningful, sustained

ways. Due to significant budget and time limitations, especially toward the arts, educators can-not create these resources themselves, and they may lack the funds necessary to continually

update their materials. Indeed, this is the case in many education contexts across the globe. As

such, electronic versions are made available via our website to hold relevance to many educa-

tors globally. Providing educators with a current resource such as PSPs Educators Toolkit en-

hances education, by enabling educators to create a safe, sustainable forum for youth to learn,

consider, analyze, discuss and connect with these issues. It is important that we empower our

youth to contribute to positive global change in a safe, constructive, collaborative, effective

fashion, especially since they are the next generation of changemakers.

With regards to this project, Greening the Island of the Gods, the issue of waste management

is relevant to communities all over the world. The case study of Bali and the solutions being

implemented there offers timely and important lessons for both the developing and developed

world alike, teaching youth to care for the earth and seek appropriate information and action for

their own communitys waste management practices.


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The Educators Toolkit

This project equips educators with a teachers resource package that includes a roughly forty-

page, grade-specific curricula guide for four grade divisions (Gr. 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, and Postsec-

ondary), along with a copy of the film. This toolkit will contain a variety of materials that enable

educators to use PSP films in their classrooms, including but not limited to:

Suggested lesson plans

Classroom activities to deepen students understanding of the issues addressed by

community members in the films and to demonstrate the relevance of these issues in

their lives Discussion questions to help stimulate critical thinking

Activities that allow students to engage and take positive action

Sample assignments and test/exam questions relating to issues present in the film

Additional geographic, demographic, theoretical, and conceptual information

A bibliography of recommended resources for further research

Suggestions of ways to incorporate PSP films into existing curricula expectations and

requirements for such courses and/or topics as economics, languages, world issues,

film/media studies, politics, sociology, global citizenship, history, environmental studies,

science, and biology Ways to interact with other students around the world on the topic


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Creation & Distribution

This toolkit will be created by PSPs Education Outreach Team in collaboration with under-

graduate Concurrent Ed student interns from the University of Toronto, and graduate students

at New York University. Once completed, the curricula will be evaluated through pilot in-class

workshops in Toronto and Bali, to ensure the efficacy and applicability of our resources in dif-

ferent classroom contexts. In these workshops, PSP facilitators will demonstrate the curricula

with the participation of local teachers. Both oral and written feedback will be solicited from

students and teachers, after which appropriate revisions will be made to the curricula. We aim

to conduct at least five workshops per grade division, equaling twenty in total, between Janu-

ary and March 2013, with the final versions of the Educators Toolkits to be prepared for dis-semination in April 2013 in online electronic format. Print versions with accompanying DVDs

may be created and distributed as well if funding and/or a donation in kind is received for this

purpose. This resource will be fully bilingual, available in English and Indonesian.

PSPs Education Outreach Team now works in schools in Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the

UK, and the US. Schools and Universities in North America and Indonesia have already made

PSPs films a part of their curriculum, including The Green School in Bali, Rousseau Lake Col-

lege in Muskoka, The University of Toronto, York University, Cornell University, and New York

University.


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Project Budget

Education Outreach: $3,410For this amount, educators worldwide would have

access to the Toolkit and film via downloadable

electronic format available online, free of charge.

Please note this cost does not included printedversions of the Educators Toolkit, which cost $20

per kit, including a DVD copy of the film.

Description Days Cost/Day Investment

Pre-production: research & planning 5.0 $120.00 $600.00

Production: principal photography 4.0 $150.00 $600.00

Production: donation to PSP for camera & sound rental 4.0 $100.00 $400.00

Production: car rental 4.0 $30.00 $120.00

Post-production: editing 20.0 $150.00 $3,000.00

Post-production: hard drive storage & archiving 1.0 $200.00 $200.00

Post-production: transcription & translation 3.0 $50.00 $150.00

Distribution: upload to web 1.0 $50.00 $50.00

Distribution: DVD label & insert design 1.0 $120.00 $120.00

Distribution: 100 printed DVDs with inserts 1.0 $200.00 $200.00

Distribution: webpage design 1.0 $120.00 $120.00

Education Outreach: toolkit for educators - writing 15.0 $120.00 $1,800.00

Education Outreach: toolkit for educators - editing 3.0 $120.00 $360.00

Education Outreach: toolkit graphic design 5.0 $120.00 $600.00

Education Outreach: toolkit piloting in schools 5.0 $120.00 $600.00

Education Outreach: toolkit upload to web 1.0 $50.00 $50.00

Pre-pro uction, Production & Post-production $5,070.00

Distribution $490.00

Ed cation Outreach $3,410.00

Total Project $8,970.00


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Project Schedule


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Date Task

July 2012 Principal Photography

August 2012 Edit for Parts 1 and 2

September 2012 Test Screenings, Minor Edits, and Film Release

October 2012 Premiere Screening Event in Bali

November 2012 PSPs Education Outreach Team to develop Educators Toolkit

January 2013 Educators Toolkit piloted in schools in North America and Bali

February 2013 Feedback from educators received and evaluated

March 2013 Final revisions to Educators Toolkit

Apr il 2013 Educators Toolki t released online

Greening the Island of the Gods- Education Outreach

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